Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> writes: > -RPM and deb packaging would be nice
Indeed. The best thing would be to have the hadoop build system output them, for some sensible subset of systems. > -the jdk requirements are too harsh as it should run on openjdk's JRE > or jrockit; no need for sun only. Too bad the only way to say that is > leave off all jdk dependencies. I haven't tried running Hadoop on anything but the Sun JDK, much less built it from source (well, the rpmbuild did that so I guess I have). > -I worry about how they patch the rc.d files. I can see why, but > wonder what that does with the RPM ownership Those are just fine: (from hadoop-init.tmpl) #!/bin/bash # # (c) Copyright 2009 Cloudera, Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. ... Ian
